Athlon 64 2800+ and Hypethreading-free Prescott tested

AMDZONE casts an eye over an Athlon 64 2800+ over here. It clocks in at 1.8GHz and comes equipped with 512KB of L2 cache, they say. They put it up against all the other Athlon 64s and an Intel 3.2GHz P4 Northwood.

Meanwhile, the [H]ardnuts have a stab at overclocking Intel's Prescott 2.4A. This unusual chip slipped quietly from Intel fabs, shorn of Hypethreading. It's a Prescott Pentium, though, with a 533MHz (Quad Pumped 133MHz) Front Side Bus. And the chip looks like quite some overclocker, with "shining results" in the [H] overclocking tests, here. What's up with Hypethreading? we wonder.

The Hexers take the lid off an Intel Celeron 2.8GHz over here. "If you hear the words 'Intel 2.8GHz processor' in some fancy advert with a PC at an unbelievable price, just do yourself a favour and look at the smallprint carefully," they suggest.

Bit Tech's latest CeBIT report looks at "everything" from flash Alienware laptops to the Socket-T 'fiasco' over here.

Anand sees fit to update its AOpen AK86-L review over here. And falls at the feet of John Carmack, the Muhammad of GDC, over here.

The Techreporters fiddle with a Shuttle XPC SB75S and wooed they have been, by its "stark, sleek lines and white pearlescent finish", over here.

LiquidNinjas put the FIC K8-800T mobo, based on VIA's K8 chipset with socket 754 support through the hoops over here.

Tweaknews fiddles with some SimpleTech PC3700 1GB Dual Channel Memory over this a-way. Nice, stable and overclockable, they reckon

Monster Hardware goes soft on a Black Icemat over here.

Epower Technology's Jaguire-450 PSU gets a going-over on Club OC over here. They also take a gander at one of HighPoint's "neatest and less expensive offerings", the eSATA v2 kit over here.

And a StarTech HDDPRO Hard Disk Cooler keeps the noise down low on Bjorn3D, over here.